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Original by Stuart Skorman. Edited for use in this blog about emotions in Entrepreneurship. Starting a business often comes with strong emotions. Joy is often present when starting a business. Call it happiness, exhilaration, or excitement. All can be helpful, but joy shouldn’t be the base of your emotional foundation. Ultimately business decisions need to…
By Stuart Skorman During my career, I’ve started four intentional businesses and a couple of unintentional ones. Through it all, I’ve learned a lot about what it takes to pick a winner. Here is some food for thought: Base your decision on logic, not emotion. Many people let feelings and passion steer them toward a…
As an new lecturer at CU-Boulder I had to brush up on my re-reading of my library of entrepreneurship books! I think I have close to 50 of them as textbooks and Kindle books. Always interesting to get so many people’s viewpoints on such a wide topic. I can relate to so many of the…
I read all Mark Suster’s posts and I recommend you do too. Mark stands out for me as he is well “traveled” in all respects of the word: in life, in business, and in investing. This makes his perspectives quite unique in the US VC ecosystem and also, I think he is much less worried…
I am a “car guy” and so I happened upon a great story on Autoblog today and I wanted to share the video and the story about Porsche collector Magnus Walker. To me it made me think of the “slow food” movement when watching…I felt this guy had achieved his life mission, had a great…
Carmine Gallo of Entrepreneur Magazine posted an interesting article, here is a summary of what she thought of Steve’s key success factors: 1. Do what you love. Jobs once said, "People with passion can change the world for the better." Asked about the advice he would offer would-be entrepreneurs, he said, "I’d get a job…
I was reminded recently that saying “thanks” with the smallest of gifts can really have an impact. In this case, one of my Stanford teams from last year met up for a dinner and they sprung a surprise on me! A small but thoughtful gift to say thanks for me helping them with their business…
Many years ago I woke up from a long sleep just like in the matrix (one of my favorite movies). I was inquisitive and wanted to try something new. I was like most corporate executives working hard, playing hard, a big mortgage, a big lifestyle, and more than enough keeping up with my successful friends…then…
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